tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300489389192436748.post339377413328055204..comments2023-07-23T01:32:04.221-07:00Comments on Talking the Talkies with Peter Waters: Review: The Dark Knight Risespwatersnhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17142935851745771523noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300489389192436748.post-27315558577461414192012-07-22T10:14:17.330-07:002012-07-22T10:14:17.330-07:00**spoilers** Well, uh, Batman, I totally agree wit...**spoilers** Well, uh, Batman, I totally agree with you about that twist with Bane not being the one to escape; it also makes the final fight at the end lose impact because now we know that Bane and Batman are not true physical equals (therefore making his crippling fight earlier make Batman look like shit). And I also had a problem with the bomb at the end - such a cliche.pwatersnhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17142935851745771523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300489389192436748.post-7378130694883683982012-07-22T00:21:49.884-07:002012-07-22T00:21:49.884-07:00Sorry for the heavy grammar and spelling errors an...Sorry for the heavy grammar and spelling errors and lack of any organisation of thought in my post. It's 3AM... I went to the 11PM showing and just wanted to get some quick thoughts out before going to bedRunFAZthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994443758514453599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300489389192436748.post-67146550831350564872012-07-22T00:17:38.810-07:002012-07-22T00:17:38.810-07:00Thought the movie was great based on the fact that...Thought the movie was great based on the fact that it was 2.5 hours and I was thoroughly entertained the entire time. Hans Zimmer kicked ass with the music as he always does. Bane's voice sounded amazing. Catwoman was perfect. The acting and all that was fine and dandy and all that...<br /><br />I do not think it was as good as everyone says it was, however.<br /><br />First of all... As awesome as Bane's voice sounded, I found the dialogue between him and Batman to be too difficult to keep up with. It was like listening to a conversation between Stallone and Schwarzenegger. It wasn't unbearable, but I kept thinking how I wish there were subtitles whenever the two of them spoke.<br /><br />Secondly - Every single "Twist" was waaayy too easy to see, and they relied on the "twist" factor much more in this film than they did in the second one. <br /><br />BELOW ARE SPOILERS!!!!!<br /><br />It was far too easy to see that the English girl was going to turn out to be working with Bane in the end. They made this big point in telling us that she has complete control now, and Bane kept saying how everything was going part of the plan, and she had that scar on her back, and so on and so on... They gave her that all too common role of the cute female character who gets really friendly with the hero, but then turns out to be the villain's right hand woman.<br /><br />I don't understand why anyone would think that Bane was the kid who climbed out of the tunnel. They tell you outright that bane was givin his mask in that pit by that doctor, yet the kid who escapes the pit had no mask... sooooo why are we supposed to think that that was Bane?<br /><br />I was also bummed out at how predictable the solution to the nuclear bomb problem was. SPOILER - It's the same as pretty much every single other movie that has a Nuclear Bomb that can't be shut off - They move it to another spot... (literally just happened in the Avengers 2 months ago)<br /><br />It was all way to unbelievable too. I can understand how it's just a movie, it's a superhero movie, blah blah blah... But they paint this guy Bane as this hulking, seemingly invincible character, and then there's Batman who's completely decrepit, and expect us to believe he's going to be able to fight him. There was too much craziness. The bike in 1 was cool, the tank in 2 was cool, but a Banshee straight out of Halo 2 for 3?!<br /><br />I liked how in the first 2 movies, Batman's success in fighting was brought on because he was so good at the whole deceptive, unseen, trick/distraction fighting. This movie he just uses his brute strength - which he shouldn't have anymore. When they show him crippled in the beginning I was excited because obviously he was going to end up fighting, and I thought we'd be seeing him resorting to the distraction fighting methods heavily and I was disappointed.RunFAZthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994443758514453599noreply@blogger.com